charlie strauss wrote: > Below is a simple program that will cause python to intermittently > stop executing for a few seconds. it's 100% reproducible on my > machine.
Confirmed with Python 2.4.2 on Windows. gc.disable() fixes it, so it looks like you found an inefficiency in the Python's GC. I have no idea whether this would be considered a bug by Python's developer, but you can try opening a bugreport... -- Giovanni Bajo -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list